All Frogs Great and Small. Frog statues surround a mansion. The mansion's owner is played by Ray Milland who is in a wheelchair, barking orders at the help, and he wants to get rid of All Frogs Great and Small. Sam Elliott is a nature photographer who takes pictures briefly, is almost killed when his boat nearly collides with another and is fleetingly barechested in one scene. Elliott later visits the mansion...because it is a July 4th celebration? Oh, no, he wants to warn against the pesticides and has incredible intuition about how the wildlife will fight back? Joan van Ark has seemingly drifted in from Knots Landing, and she meets and is seemingly smitten with Sam (sans mustache, stubble and gravely voice) and says she almost went to his room at the mansion and decided against it. Why? There are ribbit sounds every few minutes. So begins "Frogs"!
This is the kind of movie where people who live at the mansion go on nature walks looking for each other, unaware that rattlesnakes and crocodiles pollute the woodsy areas. If they know this, how do they not protect themselves? Oh, yes, there are dozens of frogs everywhere and a few have a thing for July 4th cake! Yum, yet not one frog eats a human (despite the false advertising) and the snakes bite and sometimes end up in the chandelier at the mansion ruining everyone's dinner plans. Lizards can sometimes drop a gaseous poison bottle inside a greenhouse and asphyxiate a victim. This movie is allegedly a nature striking back at man B-movie only Hitchcock's "The Birds" did it better and with more sense and less pesticides. The last shot is the best, right past the end credits, as an animated frog eats a human hand. I think I will stick to Kermit the frog who never ate a human.
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